Yes, i have change my disk brand from imation to verbatim. Before that i was use imation, but didn't get burn failed before. But after i buy imation, i think maybe is low quality one, then i always get burn failed and now i change to verbatim, good quality one, but few day before i copy disk, burn process failed again. Thank for help, please tell me why this happen.

In most cases there is no difference between Imation CD-Rs or Verbatim CD-Rs since they both source from the same factories. The differences for CD-Rs is more brand perception than reality.

It appears that you are copying a disc on the fly (at least that is enabled) yet you are creating a disc image. Your memory is up to 74% used, and that leaves little in reserve. If you are copying on the fly from one disc to another, any flaw in the master will create problems because so little memory is left for use in buffering. If you are creating an image on your hard drive first--a better, safer choice--there should be fewer problems. Slowing down the recording speed helps because mechanical problems are reduced at slower speeds and data transfer rates are easier on your system. 16X or 20X may be too slow for phthalocyanine dyes used in Verbatim and Imation discs these days, but 24X or 32X ought to produce good recordings.

I seem to be having the same problem and have read all of the post in this thread and followed the suggestions given. I'm trying to copy some music CDs for my husband so he can keep a set in his truck. I have been copying CDs for many years with little to no problems until now. A couple of days ago I copied about 4 to 5 of them with no problem. I have not been able to copy any successfully since then. I don't understand what may have happened that would cause this problem to suddenly appear. I'm using the Imation brand CDs which is the brand I've been using for years. Any thoughts on what could be wrong and suggestions as to what I can do to correct it?
Thanks. Linda

What is the difficulty--the drive won't work, the software fails, the copying stops in the middle of the recording, the copied discs don't play? These symptoms all suggest different things; so we have to know exactly what the symptoms are as well as the drive model you are using.

Copying on the fly is a common problem for two reasons--the master disc has a flaw that error correction either cannot fix or takes too long to fix, thereby interrupting the process; or the computer is running too many processes at the same time to be able to temporarily store the data from the master before they are copied to the blank disc. Even a problem with RAM memory can appear to be a "disc problem," but everything has to be examined to find the true cause.

CD-R burning failing for both data & music (TOSHIBA ODD-DVD SD-R6252 on XP Pro on HP Pavilion ZD7000).
* In the case of data, dragging file images onto image of the disk and then implementing the native XP process to burn goes through all the expected steps (reporting on progress, progess bar, report about finishing). But then, reinserting the disk shows it as blank.
* In the case of music, using iTunes latest version, the disk burns in the expected way, creating a disk with all the tunes displayed as you would expect, but then any attempts to play hang the replay, and sometimes the application, but not the computer.

What I have tried:
* Tested that drive replays CDs previously recorded on this drive/burner, as well as 'public' CDs
* Checked that 'Enable CD recording' is checked
* Tested that burning fails on CDs made by 2 different vendors
* Uninstalled the driver, and restarted the computer
* Checked by downloading that TOSHIBA drivers were current
* Tried fix from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_cd_dvd_fix.vbs
* Set IMAPI service to start automatically, and rebooted

At this point, Tech Support at HP concludes that I need new CD player/burner, and I have purchased one. All the same, I can't help wondering what exactly is going on, and if it's fixable.

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back. I sell real estate, or try to anyway, and, as most know, the market is horrible. Not much time for anything else but work lately, with no results. Anyway.....

My problem is that the disc copy process is almost complete and it stops. I did try a slower speed but that didn't work either. My husband does keep his CD's in the original cases when not using them but I guess they can be damaged in the player sometimes. It just seems odd that the first few discs I copied with no problem at all and then after about the 5th or so I continued to get the error message disc after disc. I will read your post again to see what information you've requested and send that information if I can find it. Thanks for your help.